IBM is the largest design thinking organization in the world with more than 1,600 professional designers and 100,000 IBMers certified in IBM Design Thinking. IBM Design Thinking helps IBM meet the world's demand for fast, capable decision-making by emphasizing inclusive, interdisciplinary teams and a focus on user outcomes. The result? Bold products addressing today's most complex challenges. IBM's Phil Gilbert will share his story and the insights he's gained transforming one of the world's oldest and most respected technology companies using human-centered design and a willingness to restlessly reinvent.

Phil GilbertGeneral Manager, IBM Design

Since 2012, Phil Gilbert has led the reinvigorated IBM design program, spearheading a broader transformation of how the company's teams understand and solve complex problems. Previously, Gilbert led the business process management (BPM) segment for IBM, where he drove the simplification of its portfolio and the ease-of-use of its products. He joined IBM in 2010 via the acquisition of Lombardi Software, where he was president.

Gilbert is a recognized leader in the technology industry, having led three successful start-ups, and is in demand around the world as an acknowledged expert and thought leader on topics of portfolio and software design, design governance, strategy, and culture. He has been awarded multiple patents, and has recently been called upon to advocate before the US Congress for a new "Digital Americans with Disabilities Act."

Segal Seminar Series: David Karger, MIT

My group develops systems to help people manage information and share it with others. We consider both text (online discussion tools) and structured data (information visualization and management applications). Our guiding principle is that humans are powerful and creative information managers, and that the key challenge is to build systems that can accurately store and present the sophisticated thinking that people apply to their information. In this talk I'll take a rapid tour through many of these systems, discussing common motivations and solution themes.

Tackling online discussion, I'll discuss NB an online-education tool for discussing course content in the margins, Murmur, a system that modernizes the mailing list to address its drawbacks while preserving its great utility, and Wikum , a system that bridges between discussion forums and wikis by helping forum participants work together to build a summary of a long discussion's main points and conclusions. Tackling data, I'll describe a systems that empower people to create their own data-management tools simply by authoring HTML documents. Exhibit lets users author HTML that turns into interactive data visualizations. Mavo adds data editing and spreadsheet-style formulas that permit the construction of full-fledged applications in a single HTML document.

Bio:

David Karger is a professor of computer science and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Karger began his career in algorithms and continues to be interested in the topic, particularly in the application of algorithms to real world problems. This has led him to work in systems, networking, and coding and communication. Karger has also spent time working at Akamai and consulting for Google, Microsoft, and Vanu.

Spring Design Expo

Segal Design Institute

6:00 PM

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The Garage (Suite 300), North Campus Parking Garage/Academic Building

Details

You're invited to attend the Spring Design Expo hosted by the Segal Design Institute. Come see undergraduate and graduate student design projects as well as portfolios. This showcase of student design work will take place on Friday, June 8 from 6:00pm until 8:00pm at The Garage on Northwestern's Evanston campus.

Northwestern Engineering - PhD Hooding Ceremony

McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science

2:00 PM

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Ryan Family Auditorium, Technological Institute

Details

Although there are no tickets required for this ceremony, the Ryan Family auditorium could reach seating capacity. There will be a live video feed in Tech LR-5. Families with small children may find the overflow room more accommodating to their needs.

1 p.m. The Ryan Family auditorium opens to guests of graduates.Graduates gather in LR-2 for graduation instructions.

1:15 p.m. Graduates check-in at the registration tables just outside LR-2 in Tech.